Baruch Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632 to 1677), born in Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community; died in The Hague; author of the Ethics and the Theological-Political Treatise.
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Whatever exists is in God, and without God nothing can exist or be conceived
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
gutenberg.orgSaid c. 1661–1675This on korrents
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Whatever exists is in God, and without God nothing can exist or be conceived
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Ethics (tr. R. H. M. Elwes, 1883) Said c. 1661–1675
People think themselves free because they are aware of their wishes but ignorant of the causes that make them wish
Herefrom it follows, first, that men think themselves free inasmuch as they are conscious of their volitions and desires, and never even dream, in their ignorance, of the causes which have disposed them so to wish and desire.
Ethics (tr. R. H. M. Elwes, 1883) Said c. 1661–1675
The mind has no absolute or free will; each choice is determined by a cause, itself determined by another, without end
In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.
Ethics (tr. R. H. M. Elwes, 1883) Said c. 1661–1675
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Hatred grows when it is returned, and it can be destroyed by love
Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.
Ethics (tr. R. H. M. Elwes, 1883) Said c. 1661–1675
Good and bad are not qualities of things in themselves but notions formed by comparing things with one another
As for the terms good and bad, they indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking, or notions which we form from the comparison of things one with another.
Ethics (tr. R. H. M. Elwes, 1883) Said c. 1661–1675
A free person thinks about death least of all; their wisdom is a meditation on life, not death
A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
Ethics (tr. R. H. M. Elwes, 1883) Said c. 1661–1675
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself; we do not rejoice because we control our lusts, we control them because we rejoice
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
Ethics (tr. R. H. M. Elwes, 1883) Said c. 1661–1675
All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare
But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Ethics (tr. R. H. M. Elwes, 1883) Said c. 1661–1675
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